Woven fabric.



A. J. CUMNOGK.

WOVEN FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18, 1907.

1,071,143. 1 Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

Inventor:

A ttyS ARTHUR J. CUMNOCK, RYE, NEW YORK.

WOVEN FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26,1913.

- Application filed February 18, 1907. Serial No. 357,850.

fabric, having both top and bottom edges of dissimilar contourprojecting beyond the interwoven portion of the fabric.

Certain other objects are also accomplished, as will be apparent fromthe following description of the invention.

Further objects of the invention will hereinafter appear, and to theseends the invention consists of a woven fabric for carrying out the aboveobjects embodying the features of construction, combinations of.elements and arrangement of parts sub stantially as hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed in the following specification and shown in theaccompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of the fabric; Fig. 2 is a planview of a portion of a modification.

Referring to the drawings A represents the fabric, which in thisinstance is a tubular seamless woven fabric, comprising the layers B andC. The tubular fabric is provided with interwoven portions D thereinshown in Fig. 1 woven transversely of the warp, while in- Fig. 2 theseinterwoven portions are represented by E woven longitudinally of thewarp. The interwoven portions D or E are broken as indicated in thedrawings instead of extending continuously as in my co-pendingapplication, Serial No. 205,695, filed April 30, 1904, and one of theobjects of breaking these portions is to enable the collars or otherarticles of wearing apparel to be cut or otherwise formed out of thefabric around the broken interwoven portions so that each article shallhave an interwoven portion embedded therein.

Preferably the interwoven portions D or -E lie end to end insubstantially parallel rows, and this is to facilitate the laying out ofthe articles to be cut.

In Fig. 1 collars are indicated in dotted lines F, each collar beingoutlined around an interwoven portion D, and as shown, the interwovenareas are preferably arranged to form portions of the collar bands. Inorder to save material and prevent waste the outlines of the collars arepreferably nested as indicated in Fig. 1, and in order that this may bebetter accomplished the interwoven portions D are staggered as shown.

. A main feature of the invention consists in so weaving the fabric thatthe article having upper and lower edges of dissimilar contour may beformed therefrom and to that end the interwoven parts are spaced in suchmanner that the upper part of one article, such as a collar, and thelower part of another, and additional article of the same kind, can beformed from the portions between the interwoven parts. For instance, asseen in Fig. 1, it is apparent that the inter-woven portions are sospaced that between said rows, of inter-woven ortions 1t 1s possible tohave parts of two ifl'erent collars to-wit the upper fold of one collarand the'lower fold of a second collar, and the upper edges of thecollars bein of dissimilar contour from the lower e ges the fabricplainly adapts itself in a highly advantageous way to the forming of thecollars with a minimum waste of material and a minimum amount of labor.

In Fig. 2 the interwoven portions E are preferably formed unstaggeredand extendmg in straight lines while the outlines of the collars are notnested as in Fig. 1, and this arrangement is designed to facilitate thecutting of the collars.

I claim and desire to obtain by Letters Patent the following 1. As a newarticle of manufacture, a collar fabric having a band portion formed byinterwoven portions of the upper and lower layers of said fabric, theupper and lower layers projecting beyond the interwoven portions bothabove and below the inter woven portion and also at the ends of theinterwoven portions, substantially as speci- 2. As a new article ofmanufacture, a 001- I In testimony whereof I have signed this lar fabrichaving a band formed by interspecification in the presence of twosubscrib- 10 weaving a portion of two layers of fabric, ing witnesses.said layers of fabric projecting both above 5 and below the solidWebbing band portion ARTHUR CUMNOCK' for forming the fold and also theattaching Witnesses: portions of the collar substantially as speci- OLINA. FOSTER,

fied. A, L. OBRIEN.

